The ‘Deep Fake’ Threat

High-tech forged videos could wreak havoc on politics. Policy makers must be ready.

Bloomberg Opinion
Bloomberg Opinion
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3 min readJun 14, 2018

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By The Editors

Pondering a strange new technology, in 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “The very things which an artist would leave out, or render imperfectly, the photograph takes infinite care with, and so makes its illusions perfect.” That’s becoming a…

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